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The leaders of Muslim community and religious organizations signed a joint document on December 11, 2017 - The Social Concept of Muslims in Ukraine. At a solemn meeting, representatives of Islamic organizations spoke about the history of this document.

The ruins of the old church in the district center of Rozhische in Volyn have become the subject of controversy between the Protestants and the Orthodox. The temple was built in the nineteenth century by the Baptists, “the Soviets” expropriated and placed manufacturing plants in the church.

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The history evidences: the Local Churches that were historically associated with earthly empires were uninterested in the canonical establishment of local churches under their jurisdictions, and therefore usually granted autocephaly to churches only under the pressure of historic circumstances. No exception is the Moscow Patriarchate, which has incorporated the Orthodox Church in Ukraine since 1686.

Ukrainian Orthodoxy and Ukrainian society suffer from division. The majority of Ukrainian Orthodox believers belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. The rest of the Orthodox community of Ukraine has chosen a different path of self-proclaimed autocephaly. However, neither the first nor the second path is optimal for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine to date.

Ukrainian chaplains pushed up together to support Ukrainian military

Ukrainian military chaplains of different denminations and religions have joined the world campaign “22 Push-ups challenge” in support of Ukrainian military – Fr Lubomyr Yavorsky, Deputy Head of the Department of the Patriarchal Curia of the UGCC of the Pastoral care for Armed Forces of Ukraine, said on his Facebook page.

After the ministers had pushed up 22 times, they passed the challenge to their colleagues - chaplains, priests, seminarians - from their denominations - UGCC, RCC, AUC ECB, the Union of Free Churches of Evangelical Christians, RAMU, Church of Evangelical Christians in Ukraine, UOC-MP.

During two weeks, Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Army Academy held a training for military chaplains of churches and religious organizations that are part of the Public Council of the Ministry of Defense.

24 ministers agreed to take a training, including the Christians - representatives of the Orthodox denominations, Greek and Roman Catholics, Evangelical Christians-Baptists, Pentecostals, evangelicals and imam chaplains.